Illustration by poul steffensen from the danish novel dronningens vagtmester by carit etlar which takes place during the dano-swedish war in 1658-1660. Tam and his evil wife kulsoen has gotten a letter for svend gønge. Kulsoen wants to read it herself but tam gets away with it. He teases her with her own words about how people thinks on the right but does the useful. Now he does the right while she can think on the useful. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..
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